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Characters Of Chillingworth And Bayle.
horrence and the Salisbury Register , which is still extant . "Ego " Gulielmus Chillingworth , . . omnibus hisce articulis , " et singulis in iisdem contends volens , et ex animo subscribe , et " consensum meum iisdem prtebeo . 20 die Julii 16 3 8 . " But , alas ! the chancellor and prebendary of Sarum soon deviated from his own subscription : as he more deeply scrutinized the article of the Trinit ) ' , fathers could hold his
neither scripture nor the primitive long up orthodox belief ; and he could not but confess , " that the doctrine of " Arius is either a truth , or at least no damnable heresy . " From this middle region of the air , the descent of his reason would naturally rest on the firmer ground of the Socinians ; ancl if we may credit a doubtful story , and the popular opinion , his anxious inquiries icuoushow
at last subsided in philosophic indifference . So consp , - ever , were the candour of his nature and the innocence of his heart , that this apparent levity did not affect the reputation of Chillingworth . His frequent changes proceeded from too nice an inquisition into truth . " His doubts grew out of himself ; he assisted them with all the strength of his reason ; he was then too hard for himself ; but finding as little quiet and repose in those victories , he quickly recovered , by a new appeal to his own judgment : so that in all his sallies and retreats , he was in fact his own convert .
BAYLE . " Bayle was the son of a Calvinist minister , in a remote province of France , at the foot of the Pyrenees . For the benefit of education , the protestants were tempted to risk their children in the catholic universities ; and in the twenty-second year of his age , young Bayle was seduced by the arts and arguments of the Jesuits of Thoulouse . March 166919 th
He remained about seventeen months ( 19 th — - August 1670 ) , in their hands , a voluntary captive ; and a letter to his parents , which the new convert composed or subscribed ( 15 th . April 1670 ) , is darkly tinged with the spirit of popery . But Nature had designed him to think as he pleased , and to speak as he thought : his iety offended by the excessive worship of creatures ; and the
p was study of physics convinced him of the impossibility of transubstantiation , which is abundantly refuted by the testimony of our senses . His return to the communion of a falling sect was a bold and disinterested step , that exposed him to the rigour of the laws ; and a speedy flight to Geneva protected him from the resentment of his spiritual tyrants , unconscious as they were of the full value of the le adhered to the catholic
prize which they had lost . Had Bay church had he embraced the ecclesiastical profession , the genius and favour of such a prosylete mig ht have aspired to wealth and honours in his native country ; but the hypocrite would have found less happiness in the comforts of a benefice , or the dignity of a mitre , than he enjoyed at Rotterdam in a private state of exile , indigency ana freedom . Without a country , or a patron , or a prejudice , he claimed the liberty , and subsisted by the labours of his pen . The inequality of his'Voluminous works is explained and excused by his alternately
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Characters Of Chillingworth And Bayle.
horrence and the Salisbury Register , which is still extant . "Ego " Gulielmus Chillingworth , . . omnibus hisce articulis , " et singulis in iisdem contends volens , et ex animo subscribe , et " consensum meum iisdem prtebeo . 20 die Julii 16 3 8 . " But , alas ! the chancellor and prebendary of Sarum soon deviated from his own subscription : as he more deeply scrutinized the article of the Trinit ) ' , fathers could hold his
neither scripture nor the primitive long up orthodox belief ; and he could not but confess , " that the doctrine of " Arius is either a truth , or at least no damnable heresy . " From this middle region of the air , the descent of his reason would naturally rest on the firmer ground of the Socinians ; ancl if we may credit a doubtful story , and the popular opinion , his anxious inquiries icuoushow
at last subsided in philosophic indifference . So consp , - ever , were the candour of his nature and the innocence of his heart , that this apparent levity did not affect the reputation of Chillingworth . His frequent changes proceeded from too nice an inquisition into truth . " His doubts grew out of himself ; he assisted them with all the strength of his reason ; he was then too hard for himself ; but finding as little quiet and repose in those victories , he quickly recovered , by a new appeal to his own judgment : so that in all his sallies and retreats , he was in fact his own convert .
BAYLE . " Bayle was the son of a Calvinist minister , in a remote province of France , at the foot of the Pyrenees . For the benefit of education , the protestants were tempted to risk their children in the catholic universities ; and in the twenty-second year of his age , young Bayle was seduced by the arts and arguments of the Jesuits of Thoulouse . March 166919 th
He remained about seventeen months ( 19 th — - August 1670 ) , in their hands , a voluntary captive ; and a letter to his parents , which the new convert composed or subscribed ( 15 th . April 1670 ) , is darkly tinged with the spirit of popery . But Nature had designed him to think as he pleased , and to speak as he thought : his iety offended by the excessive worship of creatures ; and the
p was study of physics convinced him of the impossibility of transubstantiation , which is abundantly refuted by the testimony of our senses . His return to the communion of a falling sect was a bold and disinterested step , that exposed him to the rigour of the laws ; and a speedy flight to Geneva protected him from the resentment of his spiritual tyrants , unconscious as they were of the full value of the le adhered to the catholic
prize which they had lost . Had Bay church had he embraced the ecclesiastical profession , the genius and favour of such a prosylete mig ht have aspired to wealth and honours in his native country ; but the hypocrite would have found less happiness in the comforts of a benefice , or the dignity of a mitre , than he enjoyed at Rotterdam in a private state of exile , indigency ana freedom . Without a country , or a patron , or a prejudice , he claimed the liberty , and subsisted by the labours of his pen . The inequality of his'Voluminous works is explained and excused by his alternately